'We Need Support': Pacific Islands Seek Help And Unity To Fight Climate Change
They are urging the international community for more resources to help manage climate change and calling for larger countries to cut their carbon emissions.
by Ashley Westerman
Oct 05, 2019
3 minutes
In recent weeks, children marched, nations made promises and teenage Swedish activist Greta Thunberg scolded world leaders for "failing us." But while one of the groups most vulnerable to climate change, the Pacific Islands, may have received fewer headlines, it was among those making the strongest calls for action.
Pacific Island government officials in New York for the United Nations session and environmental conferences earlier this week and last week appeared more unified than at previous
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